Landstrom Drilling

Ordering the Wrong Test Can Delay Your Project by Months Property developers, engineers, and site owners across the Okanagan often use "drilling" as a catch-all term, without realizing environmental and geotechnical drilling answer completely different questions. Ordering the wrong type of investigation doesn't just waste budget — it can delay permitting, construction timelines, or property transactions by months while the correct testing gets scheduled after the fact. At Landstrom Drilling, we get this question constantly from clients across the Okanagan. Here's the honest breakdown of what separates the two, and how to know which one your project actually requires. What's the Difference Between Environmental and Geotechnical Drilling? These two types of drilling exist to answer fundamentally different questions about a site, even though the equipment and process can look similar from the surface. Kelowna environmental drilling investigates soi...